, 1887-08-18

from the terrible accident, and toke
even the shoes which covered their
ieet. VINO these wretchcs are is not
KNOWN whether they are band of
pickpockets who accompanied the
tram, or some robber gang who were
lurking In the vicinity cannot be said.
The horrible suspicion, however.
exists, and there are many who give II
credence, that the accident was n
deliberately planned case of train
wrecking, and that the bridge was SET
on lire by miscreants who hoped to
selze the opportunity offered. And the
TACT that the bridge was so far consum-
ed at the time the train came along.
and the added fact that the train was
an hour and half late, are pointed
out as evidence OF II careful conspiracy.
1t seems hardly possible that
man could be so lost 10
all ordinary feeling which
animates the basest of humanity, but
still men who will rob a dead man.
who will steal from the dying, plunder
wounded held down by break beams
OF wrecked cars, wounded whose death
by fire seemed imminent, can do anv.
thing which is base, and that is what
those fiends in human form did. They
went into the cars when the fire was
burning fiercly underneath and when
the poor wretches who were PINNED
there begged them for Gods sake to
help them out, stripped them of their
watches and jewelry, and searched
their pockets. When the dead
bodies were laid out in the corn fields
these hyenas turned them over in their
search for valuables, and that the
plundering was done by an organized
gang was proven by the fact that this
morning sixteen purses, all empty,
were found in one of the fields. 1t was
a ghastly plundering. Had the
plunderers been caught this afternoon
they would surely have been lynched.
KILLED.
Mrs Nancy Allen, Westpoint, Iowa !;
Miss Minnie Allen, Westpoint, age 16 (;
Miss Eva Allen, Westpoint, aged 90 /;
E Adams, Blackstone, Ills; Mrs w
II Allen, Peoria; Miss Susie Ball,
Peoria; J Body. S G Breeze, Wyom.
ing, Ills; Mrs VIM Bell, PEORIA Mrs
Josie Blandin, Parker's Corner, Ills =;
Chowder Farmer, Chenoa; Mrs Thos
Cooper, Pekin; Mrs. Patton, NJ Cress,
Washington, Ills; Mrs Archie Cross
we'll. Peoria; Mrs J NJ Clay, Eureka,
Ills; Miss Evelin Caruthers, Evans,
Ills; VIM Craig, Cuba, Ills; Rev VIM
Collins, Galesburg; Matte Cassew,
Washington, Ills; Capt II Il Dahlke,
Peoria Mrs Emily Duckett, Forest,
Ills; Mrs Jas Deal, Peoria; r Estro-
bawn, Peoria NJ Fillmore, Pontiac
Pearl French, Peoria j. A Green Breeds
Station; Mrs w Garrettson, Peoria Z
Goddell, Peoria; G II Hartly, Bush.
nell, illinois,; Mrs + Hill, Berwick,
Illinois; F r Hill, and his infant child,
Berwick, Illinois; Noah Havermale,
Canton, Illinois; Mrs Hicks, Chilli
cothe; Job p Kelly, Breeds Station
Miss Kelly, Peoria; w r. Lott, Elk
wood Mcdonald, Engineer Ed Nc
Clintock, J b McFadden, Peoria
Jesse Meek, Eureka, Illinois; Miss
May McEvery, Miss Agnes Murphy,
age Is, Rose Murphy, age 3, Peoria
Miss H A Mcclure and infant, Keths.
burg; Mrs John Murphy, Peoria; N A
Noon, Jacksonville, Illinois; A
Martin, Bloomington infant of
Mrs Neal, of PEORIA Miss
Jennie O'Shanghnessy, Peoria
Mrs Maggie Powers, Peoria; w II
Potter, Bushnell, Millard Patterson,
Wyoming, Illinois Geo Press, Wash
ington. Illinois ID Richards, Franklyn,
Nebraska; Michael Regan, Birming-
ham. New York; Paul Sackenreuter,
Pekin Mrs G ID Snedrecker, Abing-
don, Illinois; r Il Strachan, Peoria;
VIM Stephens, Miss T. Stephens, Peo-
ria; Melville Smith, Matamora Mrs
Smith, Geo A Smith, Peoria; Henry
Swegeleson, Keokuk, Iowa; Owens
Spach, Greenvalley; Mrs E d Stod-
dard, West Point, Iowa; Jesse Sher-
man, Bunfield, Illinois w V Troville,
Abingdon, Illinois Mrs Mary Valdeje,
Mrs Ida Webster, r r. Wright Fred
ID Whine, PEORIA J Zeitler, Pekin,
Illinois; Mrs Zimmerman, Peoria.